Officials are talking about other changes, including the removal of the former Wysor Building entrance arch

6:13 PM,
Nov. 1, 2012

The sidewalk on Walnut Street is seen Thursday in downtown Muncie.

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The rebuilding of Walnut Street in the core of downtown Muncie to make the street more accessible to the disabled could cost $2 million, Mayor Dennis Tyler said Thursday.

Officials also acknowledged Thursday they were likely to demolish and remove the entrance arch of the long-ago-demolished Wysor Building as well as remove the nearby statues that once adorned the former county courthouse, razed in the 1960s.

The streetscape project - which is likely to include repaving of Walnut from Main Street to the Canan Commons downtown park as well as still-undetermined changes to the slanting ...